Blockchain Miner Atlas Cloud Names McKibbin, Lewis To Top Posts

Atlas Cloud Enterprises Inc., which focuses on the blockchain and digital currency mining sector, has appointed Mathew McKibbin as Chief Blockchain Officer and Timothy Lewis as Chief Technology Officer.

He serves as an advisor to Network Society Labs, Humaniq, Securrency, and Loci and has been involved in several early-stage blockchain start-ups, including Ubiquity, Trive.news, and TheSunExchange. McKibbin coordinated the DC Blockchain Meetup and was heavily involved in the BitAngels investment group. He went on to work with companies such as BitPay and Factom. He later went on to co-found Ubitquity, the world’s first blockchain-based title transfer company, while also cofounding D10e, the first and leading conference on decentralization. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts in physics from West Virginia University and currently lives in Washington DC.

Lewis brings 20 years of corporate infrastructure/security/application design and development experience to Atlas. His core competencies include blockchain/trust-layer/security application development, data center, network, system, security, communications design, development, and deployment. He was previously engaged with system design, trade/data expedition and security for several banks/networks, including Northern Trust for communication/security design and migration, and at NewEdge Group during pre-and post-merger efforts for design, security and communication networks.

Lewis began bitcoin mining within a year of its inception. Commencing operations in 2010, he has earned a deep understanding and expertise in mixed-use mining operations and in driving change towards the next generation of staked mining protocols. He received his education in Computer Information Science at Ohio State University.

“I can’t stress enough how important an announcement this is for us today,” said CEO Fred Stearman. “Matt and Timothy bring an extraordinary set of complementary skills within their respective backgrounds in the world of Blockchain enterprise development. They also bring some of the widest and best-connected relationships across this fledgling industry I have ever seen. Needless to say, with so much of this entire sector as fertile ground for innovation, it’s a real pleasure to have what can best be described as ‘industry veterans’ as part of our executive leadership. With Matt’s visionary outlook and Timothy’s technical clarity and depth, we have made a quantum leap forward in our ability to meet our strategic goals and to build real shareholder value in this exciting new industry sector. We are rapidly moving to not only become the lowest-cost producer for digital currency mining, but also one of the most innovative.”

Atlas Cloud Enterprises Inc. is focusing on the business of providing co-location and backup/redundancy IT, telecom equipment and cloud computing. Atlas Cloud provides customers with secure power access, cooling and bandwidth to ensure co-located, back-up or Cloud systems have minimum risk of failure.

The development of digital currency mining has been deemed a fundamental change under the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange.